When you are not feeling well or have concerns about your health, you usually visit your family doctor. After working hours, you can also visit the emergency room. However, with advancement in technology your chances of better health care have increased. Now through the services of the digital doctor, you can consult the doctor at any time, from any device and from the comfort of your home.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, remote consultation with the physician has been possible over the landline. With the advancement of technology, digital health has progressed tremendously in the second decade of the 21st century and nowadays services are provided in a variety of ways. Digital health services are possible thanks to many applications and companies worldwide such as HeyDoctor, AmericanWell, TeleClinic, and Klinika Digjitale in Kosovo.
Digital health allows you to discuss real-time symptoms and health problems with your doctor. With the help of digital care, you can be diagnosed, learn your treatment options and get the medical report and prescription for your therapy. In cases where it is necessary, your doctor can also make a visit remotely and examine the results from medical devices to monitor your health condition.
There are three types of digital health services:
Interactive medicine:: Also called "live telehealth", where doctors and patients communicate in real time.
Remote monitoring of patients: This enables the doctor to monitor patients using medical devices to collect data on blood pressure, blood sugar levels etc.
Second Opinion: Patients can get a second opinion and consult top health professionals from the top institutions in Europe and the US. Second Opinion is provided thanks to advanced software for archiving and transferring imagery.
All these digital services are made possible thanks Personal Electronic Medical Record. With the electronic record, the damage and loss of laboratory tests and medical reports has come to an end! Now your health documentation is on your EMR, always and everywhere with you!
Personal Electronic Medical Record will help you save money, improve the quality of health care, reduce errors in therapy, tests, and unnecessary visits to the doctor.
It will also improve communication and collaboration between your family doctor and health specialists.
Digital health is more than a service. It is a way to improve patient care and raise the level of education of physicians.
How does the digital service work?
The digital service is not suitable for emergencies such as heart attack or stroke, fractures requiring an X-ray examination and splints or casts.
However, digital service is very useful for follow-up consultations and in these cases:
- When an incision can become infected, you can consult your digital doctor to discuss your symptoms.
- When you are on holidays and think you have a streptococcal infection in your throat, you can consult your digital doctor.
- If you need birth control therapy, you can consult your digital doctor and get your medical report and prescription on the same day.
It is also useful for many other health issues, including consultation with a psychotherapist, oncologist, rheumatologist, dermatologist etc.
Colds and flu, insect bites, sore throats, diarrhea and redness of the eyes are some of the other common diseases treated with the help of a digital doctor.
Benefits from digital services
The growing demand for better health care is a driving force behind the rapid development of digital health services. If you live far from the city or have a busy schedule and time does not promise to visit the doctor, then the digital service will enable you to consult the doctor and improve your health care and well-being. Consulting a digital doctor will significantly reduce your need for an emergency visit.
With the growing popularity of digital health, many health insurance companies in our country have started covering the costs of digital health services.
Digital health service does not mean that you will never visit your family doctor again. But it makes health care Fast, Simple and Secure. It will also help you spending less time on the waiting room.
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